User nobody, NFS alpha vs Sun

From: Lucio Chiappetti <lucio_at_ifctr.mi.cnr.it>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:33:30 +0100 (MET)

I have a little curiosity.

We have a few Alphas (DU 3.2) which are NIS clients of a Solaris 2.5 Sun.
The "group" map is disributed via NIS and defines groups

nobody::60001:
nogroup::65534:

These groups are not defined locally in /etc/group on Alpha.

While I can create and chown a file to nobody.nobody or nobody.nogroup
locally on Alpha (actually for instance our httpd runs as nobody.nogroup),
when I look at an NFS directory mounted from the Sun, I see a file as

-r--r--r-- 1 public 4294967294 154 May 25 15:11 Read.Me

while the same file on the Sun appears correctly as

-r--r--r-- 1 public nobody 154 May 25 15:11 Read.Me

Why is it so ?
Anything to do with 64-bit vs 32-bit ?
Any particular option I should enable in fstab to get rid of this ?

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